The Integrated Pico Fighting Board (IPFB)
Starting in August 2022, I embarked on a journey to take some of the work that FeralAI (https://github.com/FeralAI/GP2040-Config-PicoFightingBoard/) was doing with the Raspberry Pi Pico as a Fighting Board and bring it to the next level; specially I wanted a PCB that had the Pico circuitry integrated into it, this way it looked and felt […]
So, you want a single button that does both UP and LEFT (or any two directions at the same time).
Recently, a member of my Discord reached out with a unique request. He wanted to have 4 extra buttons that added an UP+RIGHT, UP+LEFT, DOWN+RIGHT, and DOWN+LEFT to his custom build. At first, I just said this is easy, just connect your extra buttons to both of the inputs on the PCB you are using […]
JOYDAC – The Digital to Analog Converter for Brook PCBs
In 2020 I was commissioned to build a stick that required a lot of extra directional inputs. The stipulation was, they couldn’t be “double stuffed” into the Brook PCB. Meaning, I couldn’t just connect two buttons to the UP screw terminal so there were two UP buttons. They had to use the analog joystick inputs […]